Cases: Defining Mentorship from the Beginning
Decision to Become a Mentor
- You are addressed for mentorship by junior faculty
- You are contacted for use of data set by junior faculty
- You are asked to take the role of the lead mentor after a period of successful collaboration with junior faculty
- Mentor or not?—Assistant Professor asked to be a mentor
- Mentoring outside of your area of expertise
- Post docs, fellows—what about them?
- Supervisor or Mentor?
Junior Faculty Mentoring Meeting
- Career advice for junior faculty member in your clinical department
- Career advice for junior faculty member in a clinical department different from yours
- Junior faculty is asked to direct a fellowship program
Writing Skills of Junior Faculty
- Evaluate writing skills before agreeing to mentor
- Dealing with poorly written manuscripts—giving editorial advice and scientific comments
- Advising on the submission and revision of a manuscript
Faculty Job Negotiations
- Advice on finding a faculty position
- Advice on finding a faculty position in your department
- Advice on developing an independent, funded research program
- Mentee and partner both seek position at UCSF
- What is a reasonable salary for a new faculty?
Cases: Rewards & Challenges of Mentorship
Rewards of Being a Mentor
Challenges of Being a Mentor
- Fostering the mentee's independence
- Separation of a co-mentor and mentee
- Assessing lack of success
- Short on funds—what could the lead mentor do?
- Short on funds—what could the co-mentor do?
- Short on funds—career development award or independent funding?
- Salvage the relationship or not: Problems between Principal Investigator and Co- Investigator
- Is clinician-investigator the right path for your mentee?
- Developing thick skin (i.e. not letting the turkeys get you down)
Cases: Communicating Effectively with Mentees
Challenging Mentor-Mentee Interactions
- Challenges to communication—career change
- Challenges to communication—moving beyond frustration
- Challenges to communication—conveying that goals are not met & the right time to stop funding
- Challenges to communication—helping to foster independence while collaboating with the chair
Power, Gender and the Role Conflict of Interest
Cases: Balancing Work-Life
- The challenge of asking for personal information
- When and how to ask about personal information
- How to handle the mentee's refusal to disclose any personal information
- The role of the mentoring relationship in promoting the work-life balance
- A new baby and declining productivity
- Addressing academic advancement and taking time off
- Assistance for promotion despite new baby
- Academic career or family life
- "Life events mentoring"
- An illness in the family
- Addressing the financial stresses of an academic career
- Support for talented junior faculty who have encountered professional or personal impediments
- Funding for care expenses during conference travels
- Local fun vacations
- How to achieve (or at least come close to achieving) the elusive work-life balance
- Advice on balancing a new baby and work needed or not?
- Work-life balance—faculty negotiations
- Explaining personal circumstances
- How many mentorees is too many?
Cases: Understanding Diversity among Mentees
- Whether and how to encourage using ethnicity as a research advantage
- The role of culture in difficult communication
- How to approach issues of mood, time management, and diversity
- How to deal with discrimination of sexual orientation: exclusion from events
- How to handle discrimination of sexual orientation: inappropriate commenting
- Career mentoring for members of underrepresented groups
- Asking personal information about experiences based on gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation
- Career mentoring: the mentee feels humiliated
- Forced disclosure of sexual orientation to collaborators
- Use of languages other than English
- Are introverts disadvantaged in academia?
Cases: Understanding Economic and Fiscal Realities for Successful Academic Careers
- Directing grants and contracts
- Negotiations with industry
- Your mentee transfers several grants and contracts to the university
- Assistance with navigating the start-up phase for clinical trials
- Inheritance and transfer of an industry driven project
- Principal Investigator responsibility for financial management
- Problems with accounting and submitting invoices with existing subcontracts
- Assistance for entrepreneurial opportunities
- Problems in the administration of the grant and budget
- Mentoring for grant application
- Zeroed project fund—charged and put into overdraft
- Mentoring for loan repayment programs
- Foundation support for research
- Gifts and grants
- Callison Foundation and Hemphill Trust (two small, local family foundations)
- William B. Gates Foundation (a large and complicated international foundation focused on global health)
- University start up funds
- Conducting pilot research on a small budget
- Understanding the system
Cases: Grants and the Institutional Review Board
How to Assist and Manage Grant Applications
- Support for mentoring: K24 and other awards
- Are there benchmarks to review before applying for K24 awards?
- Initial grant steps for mentees
- UCSF career development awards
- NIH career development awards
- Developing a strong career development plan for a mentored K award application
- CTSI resources for K awardees
- NIH diversity support
- The score is close but not close enough
- "Early stage investigator"—NIH incentives for new investigators
- NIH application mix up—what to do?
- NIH application mix up—application reviewed in the next cycle
- Support for senior researchers—method to extend research in time awards
- UCSF Center for BioEntrepreneurship (CBE) and government small-business grants
- Funding for care expenses during conference travels
- Deficient proposal for pilot funding
- Already fully funded faculty member is asked to help with department grant application for a center grant
- Mentee needs chair support for K application
- Mechanisms to assist first-time applicant success
- Explaining personal circumstances
- NIH K award success rates
- Moving forward after R01 application fails
- Mentee transitioning to educational research
- Support for travel to a conference
Case Scenarios: IRB Pitfalls and Solutions
- When to apply to the Committee on Human Research—just in time?
- Concept of "information risk"
- Expedited applications for international research
- Dueling institutional review boards
- Committee on Human Research Application: a stitch in time saves nine
- Use of pre-existing data and specimens
- Data and safety monitoring plans
- Conflict of interest
- IRB approval for international rotations
- Does mentee need patient consent for an observational trial?
Cases: Understanding Academic Advancement Policies
- Are the mentee's initial appointment and associated academic series appropriate?
- Appraisals
- The need to become an independent researcher
- The eight year rule
- Mentoring as part of your promotion package
- Accelerated promotion
Cases: Leadership Skills and Opportunities—How to Build a Research Team
- Different leadership styles
- Your mentee is an "absent leader"
- Understanding discovery and authorship
- Mentee has to share resources with advisor
- Improve efficiency of lab meetings
- Perception of lacking authority
- Advice on hiring and salary
- How to build a research team
- Mentee needs help resolving a conflict with data collection staff
- No funding for post doctoral studies in your budget
- Defining Leadership
- Your mentee is not meeting expected tasks and developmental timelines